FUNERAL FUNDS ACT 1979 - SECT 3 Objects

FUNERAL FUNDS ACT 1979 - SECT 3

3 Objects

The objects of this Act are--

(a) to protect pre-payments made by consumers for funeral services through the registration of funeral funds, and

(b) to ensure that funeral services agreed to be supplied under a pre-paid contract are supplied as agreed, and

(c) to achieve accountability for money paid by a purchaser of funeral services that have an indefinite delivery date, and

(d) to properly manage money paid and other valuable consideration given for funeral services in the long term to provide agreed benefits to the purchaser and the anticipated payment to the supplier of funeral services.